Sunday, April 28, 2019

Set Free! | Galatians 5:1-6

Jesus has set us free! Yet, why do we so often run back to patterns of slavery? Fearing what people think of us? Doing more and more to get approval? Doubting that our sin is truly paid in full by Jesus? Discover anew the freedom that Jesus has bought for you and how live afresh in that freedom as we study Galatians 5:1-6.

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Sunday, April 21, 2019

Easter: Brining Your Doubts to Jesus - John 20:24-31

There is much proof of Jesus' resurrection — the empty grave, the hundreds of eyewitnesses, the radically changed lives of the disciples. Yet, sometimes we doubt the resurrection — not so much its history but its power and meaning today. The story of Thomas at Easter reminds us afresh to bring all our doubts to Jesus because Jesus cares for us and leads us to new life beyond the doubt.


Sunday, April 14, 2019

The Worthy King Jesus| Mark 11:1-11

This morning we gather for the beginning of Holy Week, the Passion of Christ.  We don't gather as we will on Friday night with shouts of "Crucify Him"  but rather with cheers of "Hosanna!  Hosanna in the highest!"  We all long for a king to rule with justice and equity, to really care for us, but often we make a king into our own liking and purposes.  Join us as we look at the Gospel of King Jesus in Mark 11:1-11.





Sunday, April 7, 2019

Children of Promise - Galatians 4:21-31

Children of Promise - Galatians 4:21-31

This is a challenging example of law and promise seen in the births of two sons, Isaac and Ishmael. One was a birth of promise and the other out of works, one a birth of hope and the other out of fear. As those who are heirs of Christ, the offspring of the promises of Abraham we are sons of the free woman, no longer slaves, and that should radically affect how we live.



Galatians 4:21–31

Example of Hagar and Sarah

[21] Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law? [22] For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman. [23] But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise. [24] Now this may be interpreted allegorically: these women are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children for slavery; she is Hagar. [25] Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia; she corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. [26] But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. [27] For it is written,

“Rejoice, O barren one who does not bear;
break forth and cry aloud, you who are not in labor!
For the children of the desolate one will be more
than those of the one who has a husband.”

[28] Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise. [29] But just as at that time he who was born according to the flesh persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, so also it is now. [30] But what does the Scripture say? “Cast out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman shall not inherit with the son of the free woman.” [31] So, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman. (ESV)